ofp: Number of physician office visits.

In AZIAD: Analyzing Zero-Inflated and Zero-Altered Data

Number of physician office visits.

Description

A data set containing ofp (number of physician office visit) of 4406 individuals.

Usage

ofp

Format

The original data set is based on the work of Deb and Trivedi (1997) analyze data on 4406 individuals, aged 66 and over, who are covered by Medicare, a public insurance program. Originally obtained from the US National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) for 1987/88, the data are available from the data archive of the Journal of Applied Econometrics at http://www.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1997-v12.3/deb-trivedi/. In AZIAD package we work with the number of physicians office visits for the patients.Based on the analysis of kstest.A and kstest.B and lrt.A the data belongs to zero-inflated beta negative binomial or beta negative binomial hurdle model.

Source

• http://www.jstatsoft.org/v27/i08/paper

References

• Zeileis, A. and Kleiber, C. and Jackma, S. (2008). "Regression Models for Count Data in R". JSS 27, 8, 1–25.

Examples

ofp
set.seed(1008)
d1=kstest.A(ofp,nsim=200,bootstrap=TRUE,dist="geometric")
d2=kstest.A(ofp,nsim=200,bootstrap=TRUE,dist="zibnb")
lrt.A(d1,d2)       #0

AZIAD documentation built on Aug. 14, 2022, 9:05 a.m.